SCOTT'S " GLORIOUS GRAVE."
TOMB OF ETERNAL ICE. . "LEAVE THE BODIES THERE." LORD CURZON'S TRIBUTE. . (Received February 25, 11.50 p.m.) London, February 23. At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society yesterday Lord Curzon (president of the society) eulogised the self-sacrificing work of theh late Captain Scott, Dr. Wilson and Captain Oates. Lord Curzon said that he hoped that their bodies would be left in the Antarctic with the snow as their winding sheet, the eternal ice as their tomb and the solemn Antarctic wastes as,the graveyard in which it had pleased God that they should sleep. "If," Lord Curzon added, "we cannot crown Captain Scott and his companions with a fresh laurel wreath at least let us lay our chaplet of mourning upon their glorious graves."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15237, 26 February 1913, Page 7
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